I’m making a project that needs to represent a “Teams” colors, one of which is gray… (the wood itself…gray paint won’t do it…)
I seem to remember that there is a way to bleach, stain or otherwise treat certain woods to make them look gray, but I can’t recall how…
I can use any hardwood, it just needs to end up looking gray.
Anyone know how I can do it?
Thanks in advance!
Gary
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You make harewood, aka greywood using European sycamore or hard (sugar) maple and applying ferrous sulphate. You get a similar resultant change in colour using ferrous sulphate on white oaks, as well as other wood species with high tannin contents. In my experience the best results occur with the maples and the oaks.
You might find this description of using ferrous sulphate to colour wood helpful or useful. Slainte.
Richard Jones Furniture
The easiest thing is to use a gray dye on any light wood like maple. You can get a gray "weathered" look by chemical means on any number of species, but using dye is really simple.
David Ring
http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e
Thanks!
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